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"With schools like Rowan taking stances on AI, this reaction begs the question: is AI a tool that helps us become better students? Or is it hindering us?" - Photo via Pixabay

Schweiger: Is AI making us dumb?

Gavin Schweiger, Photography Editor September 10, 2024

Artificial Intelligence, now commonly known as AI, is here to stay. As students, this new world doesn't seem so hard to navigate — it can make school easier for us by organizing our lives and thoughts,...

Common communist posting that is seen around campus. - Photo via Drew Ambrosino

Rowan Communism club hopes to leave a Marx

Bryant Lopez February 14, 2024

Students may have seen communist stickers or people selling books and magazines about communism around the Student Center. This has caused many reactions from many students but there is not much information...

"The reviews on the back cover described it as “intellectually playful,” but besides a few meta-textual nods, like “Edwin St. John. Andrew,” a character named after the author, there’s nothing all that clever." - Arts & Entertainment Editor / Al Harmon

Navigating the seas of critique: A candid evaluation of “Sea of Tranquility”

Owen O'Brien February 7, 2024

Reading is back. Long considered a medium near death, cast aside in the age of video games, binge-watching, and cell phones, people have begun to rediscover the simple joy of reading a book.  It’s...

"You could never keep stare long enough but needed to keep staring to find out why you couldn't," from the story Call Me By Your Name. — Arts & Entertainment Editor / Al Harmon

“Call Me by Your Name” by André Aciman: An exploration of obsessive infatuation

Al Harmon October 23, 2023

I have been putting off reading for a while and have just now started getting through my never-ending TBR (to be read) list. But after putting it off for months, I eventually read a book that I had been...

Fall in love with reading during Campbell Library's "Blind Date With a Book" event. - Staff Writer / Elena Laughton

Fall in love with reading: Campbell Library hosts “Blind Date With a Book” event

Elena Laughton February 8, 2023

Valentine’s Day is just around the corner, and if you haven’t found yourself a valentine yet Campbell Library has got you covered. Throughout February up until Valentine’s Day, Rowan’s library...

"I don’t think that anyone could ask for a better man, and I think many readers hate that book boyfriends aren’t actual people in real life. Thank you Colleen Hoover for giving us readers unrealistic expectations for men." - Art & Entertainment Editor / Al Harmon.

Colleen Hoover’s “It Starts With Us”: A heart-wrenching journey of love & healing

Morgan Reitzel October 25, 2022

The novel “It Starts With Us,” the sequel to the sensational novel “It Ends With Us,” written by New York Times best-selling author Colleen Hoover, was released on Oct. 18, 2022. “It Starts...

People search for their next read inside of Barnes and Noble on Rowan Boulevard. - Photo / Rowan University

Editorial: Reteaching a Love of Reading

The Whit Staff October 12, 2022

What was the last book you enjoyed reading? If you don’t consider yourself much of a reader, it was probably a book you read for school. Maybe it was “The Outsiders” by S. E. Hinton because you...

"A core theme of the book is something dubbed the “Personal Legend.” One of the first characters that Santiago meets is the biblical king of Jerusalem, Melchizedek, who tells him plainly that the point of his journey is to discover and fulfill his own Personal Legend. Santiago spends the rest of the book figuring out what that means." Arts & Entertainment Editor / Al Harmon.

Journey of self-discovery: The profound wisdom of “The Alchemist”

Jack Trabucco March 29, 2022

I discovered “The Alchemist” in high school while doing research for a literature paper. The title alone was intriguing enough, but when I found out it was an adventure novel and a short one at that,...

While COVID-19 forced us into situations in which we couldn't easily connect with other people, it allowed us the opportunity to connect with ourselves. Lonsdorf achieved this by picking up myriad books during her isolation. - Photo via pexels.com

Lonsdorf: Being at Rowan Makes Me Miss My Six Months of Lockdown

Tara Lonsdorf September 30, 2020

My family took COVID-19 seriously. While most members of my household are young and would probably survive the virus, we have rather negative opinions of accidentally killing the infirm by way of negligence....

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